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Welcome, sewing pattern enthusiasts! The Fashion Belle operation will be moving to the southern United States this summer. It is an exciting but busy time. Please keep checking back for news on when our own patterns will be in print (soon after our move, hopefully!), and also use the tabs above to explore reviews of hundreds of other companies that provide modest clothing and sewing patterns.

Good names are needed for real babies and things we sometimes call "babies," like projects or businesses we want to name, or maybe we are just choosing a pseudonym to use for ourselves online. Here is a list of Fashion Belle's favorite names, and notice that many of them are French, the historic home to all things fashionable! Similar names or alternate spellings are grouped.

(Screenshot from Oliver + S) Patternmaking is solitary work, especially if you work in your own studio as an entrepreneur of an independent pattern brand for the home sewing market. That is why I was delighted to learn of two other new companies like mine using Optitex sewing pattern software!